The new Sexiest Man on earth doesn't worry me as much as his dad did cause with each generation, like us, they're becoming increasingly co-opted by soft living and materialism. Hedonists are not willing to risk their necks for some dated dogma.

Besides, all this posturing is simply a way to pry concessions from us. The one thing is that if we back them too far into the corner the crazy bastards might feel like they've nothing to lose. Rather a lot like our crazy loser school shooters.

No one seems to consider that it may work the other way round in spades.

If u watched that link I posted up thread TGT you will realize how very right you are. It is far beyond anything the sheltered Americans have to deal with. These people know absolutely nothing except what they are told from birth. Independent learning/thinking is impossible there, really quite fascinating in this day & age how such a small geographic area has maintained it's, uhhhh, ahem, dare I say for lack of a better term- "business plan". Obviously terrifying as well.

...Just, your... Fox news views of Iran, are surprising for an oil guy.

Most of the money guys in the business like Fox News, but I can assure you that I do NOT other than to see how ridiculous they are now and then. It isn't news. I have one friend who is a Republican. I forgive him.

My views of Iran are that, unlike N Korea, where the populace is as insane as their leaders, Iranians are not immune to the world, as seen in the uprising in 2009 when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was falsely re-elected. That uprising and the protests were put down with violence against the people. So the populace isn't as insane as the clerics.

Iran was actually a democracy until the Brits talked us into joining them in staging a coup which placed the brutal Shah in power. Yep. He was democratically elected and we replaced him with an evil Monarchy. Not the first time this stuff has bit us in the ass.

My guess is that Israel will toss the first nuke, or at the least airstrikes designed to take out their nuclear facilities, the main one of which is underground because Israel did the same thing to Syria long ago.

Iran is crazy because they have a religious non-secular supreme leadership and a corruptly placed President, who regularly makes inflaming remarks.

They don't measure up to the Israeli military or their nuclear arsenal. Any nuclear attack on Israel would more or less remove Iran from the face of the Earth.

Now what part of that is in line with Fox News or the right wing nutjobs who work there? Hell, the Christians freaking love Israel.

There are some crazy minded Jews in Israel, and the U.S. has paid a high price in the Middle East for supporting them unconditionally and covering their asses in the U.N. Security Council.

Now tell me what part of that I snitched from Fox News or the Koch Brothers or Glen Beck, who people in this country actually listen to.

I was wondering if it was a correct translation or not as well. It is easy to get hoodwinked on that stuff. I should send it to a friend of mine whose wife is from S Korea. He was in the Air Force over there for a while.